Corey Seager (Los Angeles Dodgers Shortstop): Jeter’s last, uh, All-Star game. I was there because my brother was there so I got to kinda experience the atmosphere of him around and met him underneath and stuff, it was pretty cool.

Joe Panik (San Francisco Giants Second Baseman): My dad would throw and, uh, my mom would shag baseballs and, uh, it was just a family thing. And, uh, it, you know, made it fun for us and that’s kinda where I got the love of the game.

Blake Swihart (Boston Red Sox Catcher): Playing my first year of baseball, I remember taking a groundball at third base and running all the way over to first base to get the guy out instead of throwing the ball to first.

Dellin Betances (New York Yankees Pitcher): Baby Wild’s perfect game. Uh, you know, I remember I was about nine, ten years old, uh, my godfather bought us tickets, and you know we were there for that obviously, you know, for one of the most memorable games in Yankee’s history.

David Price (Boston Red Sox Pitcher): I wasn’t really a fan at the time in all standing sixty feet, six inches away when Jeter hit three thousand. You know that’s, that’s pretty memorable.

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(v/o Michael Higgins): When you’re coming downtown, you have the David Whitney on the right the David Broderick on the left.

SUPER: MICHAEL HIGGINS, DEVELOPER, BRODERICK TOWER

Michael Higgins: They’re really the gateway to downtown.

SUPER: DAVID BLASZKIEWICS, PRESIDENT, INVEST DETROIT

David Blaszkiewics: “The Davids”, as we affectionately refer to them, David Broderick Tower and the David Whitney Building are two of the most important buildings in the central business district. And for decades, these two buildings have been sitting vacant

(v/o David DiRita) For a long time, they declined.

SUPER: DAVID DIRITA, WHITNEY PARTNERS, LLC

David DiRita: The question frankly was, can these buildings be saved? And there were a lot of people that believed they couldn’t.

Michael Higgins: Obviously this was a risk. But we saw a great opportunity to making a big difference in turning the downtown area around.

David DiRita: In the economic development community, the preservation community, and the financial community, there was an understanding that these buildings were part not just of Detroit’s history, but really a part of American history. If we didn’t save these two towers, we really weren’t serious about bringing downtown Detroit back.

SUPER: ROGER JOHN LESINSKI, DEVELOPER, BRODERICK TOWER

Roger John Lesinski: We had all things in place for this project. The architectural plans, the project was shovel-ready. What we didn’t have, was the financing. David Blaszkiewics: It takes a great deal of courage for a bank to step into a project and into an area that’s really transforming itself. There’s a lot of risk related to that.

Roger John Lesinski: And it was a puzzle to put all the pieces of the financing together. And that’s where Bank of America came in.

(v/o Matt Elliot): We took experience from other places around the country. We married it up with all the good local folks we had here on the ground, as well as a great developer. SUPER: MATT ELLIOT, STATE PRESIDENT FOR MICHIGAN, BANK OF AMERICA

Matt Elliot: And we end up not only being a lender, but also a long-term partner.

SUPER: VANCE JACKSON, RESIDENT, BRODERICK TOWER

Vance Jackson: Working in the city, I passed by this building when it was vacant, and then, as soon as I saw the construction start, it was really exciting. We decided to move back downtown.

Michael Higgins: I believe the bank projected it could take up to eighteen months to fill the building up, and that was budgeted. I don’t think anybody believed that upon completion it would be a hundred percent occupied.

David DiRita: We saw what Bank of America did here at the Broderick Tower. It was the first time that I really saw that a project of that scale and complexity could be achieved. So we approached the bank almost immediately.

Michael Higgins: A lot of the same players that came together to figure out and really succeed on Broderick, were also involved in Whitney.

David Blaszkiewics: We tend to look at these projects as a building or as a development. But what we’re really doing is creating community.

Roger John Lesinski: As recently as two or three years ago, in the evening or on the weekends, you wouldn’t see anyone walking the streets of downtown Detroit. Today it’s a totally different story.

Matt Elliot: Everybody wants to see Detroit succeed. For a long time, nobody saw the path how. Projects like this are starting to show folks the way.

Vance Jackson: To actually have this type of revitalization happening in the city, actually shows the world was Detroit is doing, and how we’re coming back.

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Brian Ambrozy: When people say “oh we aren’t making things in America anymore”, well here we are, we’re proving you wrong. We are making high quality goods right here in the USA.

SUPER: Heath Carr, CEO, Bedrock Manufacturing

Heath Carr: Of all the cities of the United States the best represented manufacturing, Detroit was at the top of everyone’s list.

Brian Ambrozy: To find a company that is bringing new sorts of manufacturing that isn’t even remotely tied to automotive is exciting.

Heath Carr: Shinola makes watches and bicycles.

SUPER: Lakishka Raybon, Line Assembler, Shinola

Lakishka Raybon: A lot of people is out of work and jobs are leaving, so this is like a big deal.

SUPER: Montgomery StPeter, Student Intern, Shinola

Montgomery StPeter: It’s definitely a rewarding feeling to know that we don’t have to leave Detroit to go find a job.

Lakishka Raybon: Just helping the city grow again, it means a whole lot.

Heath Carr: The creativity the design the quality the manufacturing, that all comes from people.

Brian Ambrozy: Management goes out of their way to make everybody from production staff to the janitor feel like a part of a family.

Lakishka Raybon: They try to accommodate you in any way possible. Try to keep you happy, keep you motivated.

Heath Carr: We needed people with passion, that were interested to learn, that were hungry to do something different.

Lakishka Raybon: I’m very proud, I’m very honored, I’m very passionate about what I do.

Brian Ambrozy: I’ve never felt more valued as an employee in any company I’ve ever worked for.

Heath Carr: We needed a bank to provide different ways to look into things, new ideas. Bank of America is a very large company and Shinola is very small today. But we felt our business was going to be important to them. What we were going to do was going to matter.

Heath Carr: This is more than a bank to business relationship, it’s a person to person relationship. As we grow, as new needs come up for us, Bank of America is going to be right there to say “hey have you guys thought of this, you may need this in the future”, and that is something that we needed a strong partner that could provide options, different ways to look into things, new ideas, and that’s what they’ve done for us.

Heath Carr: Shinola is something we are very passionate about. We look to make product that’s beautiful, that’s high quality and things that we can be proud of.

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Susan Goodell: According to the USDA, ninety-six billion pounds of food goes to waste every year in this country. That means that one quarter of all the food that we produce, is thrown away. There’s something terribly wrong with that. And that’s what Forgotten Harvest is focused on. We ensure that that good food doesn’t feed the landfill. And instead we feed our community. Here in metro Detroit, one in five people do not have enough food to meet their daily needs. So our fleet of thirty-four refrigerated trucks are out there on the roads, all around us, picking up beautiful food. From grocery stores, from restaurants, from farmers, dairies, manufacturers. Food that would have been thrown away, and instead making sure that it’s rescued.

V/O (John Owens): For lower income people there is no transportation.

SUPER: JOHN OWENS, Director of Communications, Forgotten Harvest

John Owens: Getting on a bus, is expensive for people. So, our mobile pantry concept allows us, to get into neighborhoods.

SUPER: KEISHA COLEMAN, Property Manager, Hazelcrest Place Apartments

Keisha Coleman: It’s somewhere where they can come and shop, receive food as like they were going to a grocery store.

V/O (John Owens): We’re feeding seniors today, that have literally walked here and will be pushing their shopping carts back to their house. The mobile pantry enables us to get closer and closer to the need all the time.

V/O (Susan Goodell): We’re so grateful to Bank of America for making our work possible. The two hundred thousand dollars, that we received through the Neighborhood Builder’s Program literally became a million meals for people in need.

SUPER: SUSAN COLE, MI Chair of Volunteer Activities, Bank of America

Susan Cole: Bank of America has also provided leadership development training. This enables the leadership at Forgotten Harvest to receive education in how to run an organization like this.

V/O (Susan Goodell): In addition to that, Bank of America has come out in large groups and helped us by volunteering in the facility. Whether it’s in our kitchen, or here in the produce section where they’re actually sorting food so that can be distributed. I frankly just don’t know what we’d do without the folks from Bank of America.

Susan Cole: They saw this waste, they saw this excess food, that is perfectly usable, and can be given to people that don’t have enough food. There’s no one else that does this kind of work.

V/O (John Owens): I think most of us at Forgotten Harvest feel it’s an honor to be of service. And to be a part of what is really a big community effort. It’s not just us. It’s everyone that’s band together to be certain that people are eating.

Susan Goodell: We see the kids. We see the elderly. We see the families that have to tell their kids they have nothing to eat. That’s what is so compelling about the work. It’s when you see the people, you can no longer do nothing.

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V/O (Dan Carmody): Eastern Market’s one of Detroit’s most venerable institutions. It goes back to 1891.

SUPER: Dan Carmody, President, Eastern Market Corporation

Dan Carmody: We get upward to forty to fifty thousand people through here each Saturday. Two hundred and fifty vendors selling everything from plants and flowers to food to arts and crafts.

Tracy Sturdirant: I come to the Eastern Market every Saturday morning just to connect with the city of Detroit.

Kara Priests: It’s a really vibrant market. It brings a lot of people from the suburbs, from the city together.

Kristen Bates: It’s so much fun they have karaoke that starts up like at nine in the morning at one of these places.

Jim Warren: This is the best place to buy flowers in the state. You get great flowers at great prices.

Megan Stirzinger: Anything you want to find, you’ll find it here.

Dan Carmody: In Detroit, there are a lot of a lot of neighborhoods where you could starve for a good piece of fruit or vegetable.

Kristen Bates: Nothing is like this produce that we pick up here.

Mark Kaltz: We can pick and grow the items and bring them right to you fresh the next day.

Dan Carmody: Detroit came through a rough patch. We have had countless vendors that came to this market when they lost their jobs. This is really fertile ground for growing a new generation of businesses.

SUPER: Carlos Parisi, Aunt Nee’s Fresh Foods

Carlos Parisi: We are Aunt Nee’s. My friend’s mom came up with this idea about six years ago. She just started doing this for fun. And then unfortunately the family all lost their jobs. So my friend and I started selling here at Eastern Market. We were one of the only food people at the time, really selling and getting people into it. And now Eastern Market just blew up. And six years later we’ve got a full business out of it. The family got out of the slump that they were in.

Dan Carmody: We’re trying to develop a strategy, to provide a level of services, to really address access issues and create more jobs around local production of food from beginning to end of the cycle. We wouldn’t have been able to think through those strategies without the help we got from consultants and advisors through the funding provided by Bank of America.

SUPER: Tiffany Douglas, SVP CSR Market Manager, Bank of America

Tiffany Douglas: Eastern Market is a jewel in our community. And investing in an organization that offers a platform for entrepreneurs and small businesses was a way in which we could impact our economies and our neighborhoods.

V/O (Dan Carmody): This building really hadn’t had any major repairs since it was built in 1921.

Tiffany Douglas: Bank of America, gifted a half a million dollars, to help with the renovation of the sheds here in Eastern Market.

Dan Carmody: Their generous support helped to put it back into the shape you see it today and it’s really a treasured part of Detroit’s fabric. This is really the place where we can demonstrate what a revitalized local food system can do to grow economies not just in Detroit but throughout major cities around North America.

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